BAGUIO CITY: All congressmen from the Cordillera have agreed to formulate a timetable in the crafting and filing of a proposed autonomy law in the 18th Congress by October 28, simultaneously with the conduct of a grassroots information and education campaign led by the Regional Development Council (RDC) in partnership with different stakeholders.
Kalinga Rep. Allen Jesse Mangaoang, two-time chairman of the House Committee on Indigenous Cultural Communities and Indigenous Peoples, over the weekend said the Cordillera lawmakers agreed to submit their inputs to the proposed autonomy bill by October 18, and that the secretariat would immediately start formulating the content of the proposed bill, which they would sign and file on October 28.
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